STUDY OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS

Lot 101
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1404662
Lot 101 | STUDY OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS
Estimate value
£ 8 000 – 12 000
STUDY OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS
COMPANY SCHOOL, LUCKNOW, INDIA, CIRCA 1780
Pen, ink and watercolour on 'J Kool' watermarked paper, scale and identification in brown ink above, the verso plain, mounted, framed and glazed
11 x 16 ½in. (27.5 x 42cm.)




Provenance

Warren Hastings, Gloucestershire (d.1818)
Hobhouse Limited, London, 1986
Barry Sainsbury (d.1999)



Literature

Indian Drawings of Plants and Animals, exhibition catalogue, Hobhouse Limited, Spring 1986, no. 5 (unpaginated)



Engraved

Along the top edge No. 1 Hippopotamia amphibious, Male
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